Prosperous Forests

Neither the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals nor the Paris Agreement targets will be reached without keeping tropical forests and other ecosystems abundant and intact. Indeed, there is no pathway towards the Paris goals considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that does not assume a near-immediate halt in forest conversion and significant forest restoration over the coming decades. Achieving this is critical to avoiding runaway climate change and its immense consequences for all life on earth